So what really is a cyborg? Is it just enough by combining human and machine and that makes one a cyborg as define by Haraway?
A cyborg is a cybernatic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction (Haraway, 2007, p34)
Will an individual who had a prosthetic arm a cyborg? So Detective Spooner in I, Robot a cyborg – being part human and part machine to help him function…better? What about a human who operate like a machine – ie, you wake up in the morning, have shower, dressed, breakfast, drive to work, do the tasks required one after another only having break during lunch time? I sometimes feel that I am a machine as working not stop from morning till nite – especially at work – able to have lunch is like a bonus to me some days. I even had a colleague who reminded me to take a break – will this make me a cyborg? As far as I am aware – I haven’t got any mechanical part in my organic form.
What feminism got to do with cyborg? I struggle with this when reading Haraway’s. I will get back to this…
